# The DA says, despite arrests being made, the illegal poaching of Clivia and succulent species remains rampant. Last week, four foreign nationals were sentenced to 15-years imprisonment each, for poaching 303 specimens of the critically endangered Clivia mirabilis in the Namakwa region. The DA’s Andrew de Blocq says several endangered and critically endangered plant species, including […]
# With only three days to the start of the 2026 Grade One and Eight online admission applications, the Gauteng Department of Education has yet to provide a list of 81 decentralised walk-in centers to assist parents without internet access in registering their children. DA’s Sergio Isa Dos Santos calls on the department to publish […]
# Business Leadership South Africa has expressed disappointment with Standard & Poor’s decision to downgrade Transnet’s credit rating. The ratings agency made its conclusion based on Transnet’s significant debt and negative operating cash flow. The organisation claims the rating is a result of years of weak leadership, union militancy, and government bailouts. CEO Busisiwe Mavuso […]
# The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse has urged Transport minister, Barbara Creecy, to consider extending the validity for all licence cards to 10 years. The department currently has a backlog of 690-thousand driving licence cards, arising from the breakdown earlier this year of the sole card-printing machine. OUTA also wants minister Creecy to waive fines […]
# The Gauteng Education Department has allocated 2.9-billion-rand of its 68-billion-rand budget for the 2025/2026 financial year towards creating safer schools. The department’s comprehensive approach to creating safe schools includes security deployment to over one-thousand-500 schools, and pro-poor interventions ensuring economic circumstances don’t become barriers to education. MEC Matome Chiloane says schools must be sanctuaries […]
# The East London Magistrate’s Court is today set to hear closing arguments in EFF leader Julius Malema and his former bodyguard Adriaan Snyman’s firearm discharge case. Malema is accused of firing a gun on stage at the EFF’s fifth birthday celebrations in Mdantsane in 2018. Snyman is accused of giving him the alleged weapon. […]
# KwaZulu-Natal MEC for Transport and Human Settlements, Siboniso Duma, has reiterated his call for motorists to drive with caution on the roads. This comes after five people were killed after a Ford Ranger lost control and collided head-on with a Hyundai on the R66 Nyezane in Gingindlovu on Sunday evening. Three adults and two […]
# The Gauteng Agriculture Department has allocated its Veterinary Services 104-million-rand to bolster support for animal health and biosecurity in the province. This is in the wake of the foot-and-mouth disease outbreak in the country. At least 32 active cases have been reported in Gauteng. Agriculture MEC Vuyiswa Ramogopa says the province’s foot-and-mouth disease vaccination […]
# National Treasury says it is concerned at the comments made by Navy Chief, Admiral Monde Lobese, on the budget of the South African National Defence Force. He accused Treasury of sabotaging the SANDF by holding back funds, and thereby risking the country’s national security. The Department of Defence has been allocated 57.2-billion-rand for the […]
